. >>> i'm scott budman, energy from solar panels, a bicycle for every employee and lots of job growth. it's all about the bar and coming up, we'll take you to cliff's place. >> and the race for donations, why a popular breast cancer funding walk is feeling the pain from a recent controversy. >>> and good evening, i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center, fantastic friday, aldridge of sunshine, right now warm inland with 79 in livermore and 80 in concord, temperatures are expected to go back into the 80s and we'll talk about our potential of 90-degree heat coming up in just a few. >>> the latest job numbers are in. let's check in with our business and tech reporter scott budman, a lot of companies are doing well here. >> the labor department says that the american economy gained 96,000 jobs in august. if you look at the numbers, a fairly big dip below the number of jobs gained even in july. this is the political story these days, the democrats talking about stead job growth, republicans pointing out that the growth has been slow. the nation's jobless rate has dropped from 8.